Overheard at Booth 3: Another Fragment of Poetry from an Old Notebook

Eyes black as a starless sky.
Eyes hauntingly devoid of light.
Her prowl, completely without clink or clamor.
She presides over all she sees and claims
without ever needing to growl, or even speak:
All fall prostrate before her.

MR
2014-0617

Overheard at Table 3: If We Are Surrounded by All This Positivity, Then Why Are We Still So Miserable?

Ching O'Madre: All I can say is that all these touchy-feely feel good "be true to yourself" "be happy" messages just leave me more miserable than ever.

Dever Dodd: Why do you think that is?

Ching O'Madre: I call it the "Curse of Unrealistic Aspirations"

Clare O'Casey: I hear that.

Overheard at Booth 2: A Stanza from "The Soundtrack of Our Lives"

... found in an old notebook, undated, but concurrent passages are from June of 2019.

Title "The Soundtrack of Our Lives"

[Stanza is further down the page, indicating that it would be the final or penultimate stanza ...]



And if I keep my arms wrapped
Around this corner of the sky
You will know you have a home
As you go sailing by


MR
2019-06XX

Overheard at Table 3: The Girl in the Spider's Web

 

Saw this on Prime.  Thought we hadn't seen it.  Wife thought we had, but wasn't sure, so we watched it.

Unfortunately, I hit the wrong button and bought the damn thing for $20.  This was in the middle of the COVID epidemic and we hadn't been to the theatre in months, so I was thinking we'd already saved more than that by just not going.

To be honest, after watching it, I still can't tell if we've seen it or not.  Until I was looking through an old notebook and on a page where other notes referenced dates of April 2019, there was written:  THE GIRL IN THE SPIDERS WEB - CLAIRE FOY

This either indicates we did see it and I had planned to write about it, or I had seen the promo and intended to watch it.

Either way, this move is, for the most part, forgettable.  Only the opening scene of her brutalizing the abuser has any sort of real tension, and even that seems a bit contrived.  The whole "you left me in the hands of our molestor/father so I hate you but it made me a powerful woman hell bent on world domination" theme is hard to follow.  Especially since the time frame is all wrong.  By the time Lisbeth was rescuing young girls from molester fathers, her older sister was already an adult as well.  So there is no real point to this whole mess of a movie.

But, I must admit, Claire Foy does indeed have the sexiest pout I think I've ever seen.  Just had to throw that in there.  But even that pout can not carry this clunker of a movie.  Go watch "Inglorious Basterds" again if you want your cool action violent revenge fix.

Overheard at the Counter: A Fine Line

Niall Carter sits back on his stool at the counter and says, "They say it's a fine line between genius and madness.  I think I just erased it."

Overheard at Booth 2: Scattered Lyrics "Arapaho"

Found in a notebook, a song tentatively entitled "Arapaho"

Oh sappa sappa - you live like a rappa
Got your presents in a wrappa
Never gonna suffah
Live like a rappa-HO!

[seems like there was the idea of making a Native American chant into a rap]

MR
2019-0513

Overheard at Table 1: World Cup 2014

I was looking through an old notebook and found this written, dated 06/18/2014

"Uruguay blamed their loss to Costa Rica on the confiscation of their dulce de leche by Brazilian customs officials."

That was the only note.  I think I meant to look further into that.  It was just so odd.

One comment that springs to mind is, "Wow!  What's in that Dulce de Leche?!"

When I entered the note into a Google search, I found this article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27889343?print=true